The ninth district is one of the areas with fewer stores in the City of Innocence, and the urban area is relatively small. Although the area is relatively small, it does not mean that it is deserted. On the contrary, during the peak tourist season, this is one of the three largest urban areas with the highest crowded population in the City of Innocence. Each store here is not big, and the inside of the store also looks relatively narrow, looks quite inconspicuous, and is easily overlooked. Only truly knowledgeable insiders can discover the magic hidden under ordinary stores here.

In front of a gray shop, the carriage slowly stopped. Pansy and Mimosa jumped out of the carriage, bowed halfway and raised their hands to guide them. Catherine and Vivian slowly walked out of the car with the hands of the two waiters. While looking at the recommended shop in front of them, they said to the two waiters: "Don't you think it's a bit inconsistent?"

The two waitresses blinked in confusion, completely unaware of what Catherine was saying.

"The actions just now were very inconsistent," Katherine explained: "If you stretch out your hand, the person who comes out dresses gorgeously and noblely, it is normal, but if the person who comes out wearing armor and robes will not feel awkward?"

"Uh, we have also received professionals before." Mimosa said with a polite smile: "The situation just now is often seen in the City of Innocence. Don't worry, no one will find it strange."

"But I think it's strange." Catherine curled her lips and said, "This way, when we go out in the future, if we are wearing combat clothes, you don't have to take them in after getting off the car, just wait in front of the door. If we are wearing dresses, then everything is as your habit."

Although in the capital of knowledge, I have become accustomed to taking care of everything in my life and not used to being around to serve, Catherine and Vivian have a tacit understanding and did not refuse the service of the Pansy sisters. The two adventurers know very well that for the Pansy sisters, this is their job, and as a guest, it is the greatest help to them. Instead of trying to refuse other people's services like some young people with excessive sympathy. That behavior does not help the other party except to satisfy their cheap compassion, but may cause countless troubles to the other party. Therefore, Catherine, who has long been trained by aristocratic education, will never make such low-level mistakes, and will only make some appropriate requirements.

"Yes." Sure enough, the waiters did not resist such small requests that were within an acceptable range, and bent down to comply with them: "As you wish."

When I walked into the shop, the walls blocked the sunlight outside. There were only two small windows on the wall near the door, and the rest were airtight, which made the overall environment in the store in darkness. The store could only rely on dim low-brightness crystal energy lamps for lighting. It seemed that the owner of the store liked such darkness very much.

"The owner should be a mage, and his level is not low." Vivian glanced at the situation in the store and said: "Only mages and thieves will like the environment here, among which the mages must also have a deep understanding of dark attribute magic. Combined with the arrangement method in the store, the owner's profession can basically be determined."

"You guessed it right." Pansy complimented: "The owner here is the best magical object appraiser and magical expert in the City of Innocence. This store is also the best in the Magical object store. In all industries of the City of Innocence, there are only a few stores that do not belong to any organization, and this one is one of them."

"Don't belong to any organization?" Catherine asked in surprise: "According to what you said before, unless you are the leader of an organization, it will be difficult for such a store to be run, and it will be difficult for the owner to survive. Why is there a special place?"

"Because this shop owner was specially invited back by Shadow Hand thirty years ago to provide him with any support." Mimosa lowered her voice and said, "There are only a few cases in the City of Innocence, all of which are special elites in their respective fields like the shop owners here. Shadow Hand will do its best to maintain the safety and autonomy of these people. Anyone who dares to make their own ideas will be attacked by Shadow Hand. Therefore, other organizations in this area will not only dare not harass this shop, but will also unite to carefully maintain the owner's all-out efforts, for fear that if something really happens, they will be suspected of being implicated."

"The way the Thieves Guild manages the city is really interesting." Vivian squatted in front of a display cabinet, rubbing his fingers gently on the floor and said, "This mage has a very powerful technique. These barrier arrays have been streamlined and improved. The ideas are quite novel, and I have never thought about some aspects. It seems that even if I have no gains today, I just think of this array. It is worth it just to see this array."

"Oh?" Catherine asked, "The owner here is still a magic master?"

"Of course, any master who is proficient in the identification of magical objects can only be an expert in magical science." Vivian explained: "Maybe it is not good at practical operations, but at least the knowledge in theory and magical circles must be profound, otherwise it will not be firm in magical objects at all."

"I'm quite curious about what you're trying to identify magical items." Catherine asked, "You often see you taking things and looking at them and you'll know the purpose, but some things will be studied over and over again for a long time but cannot be identified."

"If you want to identify a magic item, you must first determine whether the item relies on the inscribed magic array or the erosion of magic to achieve the enchantment effect." When Vivian talked about magic knowledge, he looked excited and pointed to a ring in the display cabinet and said: "For example, this ring, generally the enchanted ring will use magic erosion to change the arrangement of the magic sequence inside the ring, from disorder to direction, so as to achieve the enchantment effect. But this ring is different. If you look closely, you will find that there are some very fine patterns on the surface of the ring, which is actually an inscribed magic array. This ring uses the inscribed principle to enchant. After distinguishing different methods, you should use your own magic array to learn knowledge and theoretically split the magic array. You have to split them into the most basic magic formulas. Knowing these formulas, you can summarize the function of this enchantment."

"Oh. I understand." Catherine looked at Vivian's excited explanation with a dull look on her face. She nodded until she stopped to explain and said, "It's so interesting."

"Actually, you don't understand at all." Vivian rolled her eyes and said, "I didn't understand since the first sentence."

"Hahaha, the weather is so good today." Catherine looked up at the roof and nodded seriously: "It's so good weather. Let's hurry up and have a good time in the store."

"This is Penis's line." Vivian poked Catherine's feet with the end of the staff and turned around and walked in front of the display cabinet.

In the dark shop, there are twenty-five small scattered display stands in the center. The surface of the transparent crystal allows the items in the cabinet to be clearly displayed in front of the customers. On the walls on both sides, there are also vertical display stands built with transparent crystals, but there are more large items displayed there, such as weapons or armor. There is an inconspicuous counter at the deepest part of the shop, and a young employee sits at the counter and dozes. There is a small door behind the counter leading to the workshop in the backyard.

There were five employees in the store, and in addition to the one who was dozing off, there were four employees swaying back and forth in the store. However, the four people came in for a while, but no one greeted thousands of people. For the Innocence City shop, which was used to everything to satisfy customers, this kind of neglected customers was rare, but the two waiters beside them looked like they were used to.

"These people are actually apprentices to the shop owners." Pansy explained in a low voice: "They are not professional shop assistants, but apprentices with magical talents selected by the shop owners from the children of the Innocence City. The shop owners have been educated since childhood and are not infected with many bad habits here. Since they have not been trained by professional shop assistants, they often do not know how to communicate with customers at all. They are always immersed in the research on some products and do not know how to receive customers. The shop owners here also let them not stop them. Instead, they secretly encourage their research behavior, which leads to this special situation."

"Of course they can do this." Although Mimosa was accusing the clerk, she spoke with envy that anyone could hear: "They will be able to leave here in a few years, and go to the mage guild in some small cities for certification with the owner's recommendation, and then they can live outside with peace of mind and never go back here again."

"Can't you do it?" Catherine was stunned and turned around and asked, "Someone wouldn't let you leave? I thought you were here voluntarily. Logically speaking, you children who gave birth to this place have never committed any crimes outside. It doesn't matter if you leave?"

"If possible, who would be willing to keep the highest vigilance at such moments. If you are not careful, you will be killed. Even if you go shopping, you have to worry about whether you can go home alive." Mimosa touched her right ear, and indulging in the breath that she exhaled in her ear in the morning made her feel a stinging illusion.

"Wild Grass, shut up." Pansy glared at Mimosa fiercely. As her sister's unique majesty made Mimosa take a step back. After drinking her sister, Pansy said to Catherine with a wry smile: "Actually, it is something we don't want to leave. There have been people who left before, but most of them came back later. The outside world is actually no different from here. They all have to work and live. Who wants us in the outside world? Everything on us has the special mark of the City of Innocence. Every move outside is different from others. Experienced people can see it at a glance. So we can't live outside either. In the end, we just steal and rob as before, until we commit a serious crime and escape back here. So whether we leave or not is no different for us."

"They are right." A strange voice sounded from nearby, frightening the two sisters again. The person who came slowly was walking over, wrapped in a robe like Vivian, with only two eyes reflecting a glimmer of light under the hood: "It is difficult for the children here to live outside, so I can only choose a few uncontaminated children as apprentices."

"Elf?" Vivian pointed to the stranger in surprise and said, "This is the accent of the elves. I didn't expect that there would be elves in the City of Innocence."
Chapter completed!